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How many people worldwide starved because of the US farm policy's push towards ethanol fuel? Seriously, I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify that number.
by rms 17y ago
How many people worldwide starved because of the US farm policy's push towards ethanol fuel? Seriously, I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify that number.
- pedalpete 17y agomuch of the increase in food prices was not due to a lack of availability, but where a result of 1) rice disease killing of significant ammounts of the rice crop 2008 2) cost of fuel increases (oil, not ethanol) and the resulting increase in transportation costs.
- rms 17y agoSure. I was thinking particularly of corn and the resulting "tortilla riots" in Mexico.